The papers listed below have been selected as "Best Papers" based on the reviews of the original submission, the camera-ready version, and the presentation during the conference. For the awarded papers, a digital award will be issued in the name of the authors. The authors of these papers are also receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Awarded Papers (also Invited for IARIA Journals)

A Cloud-Native Architecture for Human-in-Control LLM-Assisted OpenSearch in Investigative Settings
Benjamin Puhani, Kai Brehmer, Malte Prieß

Why Digital Sovereignty is More than Switching the Cloud Provider: A Practical Migration Experiment [PRESENTATION]
Jörg Bartholdt, Wolfgang Forstmeier

LLM Fine-Tuning with aiDAPTIV+: A Viable Training Strategy on Resource-Constrained Compute Platforms
Abhishek Patel, Krishan Gopal Gupta, Shashank Sharma, Sowmya Shree, Sanjay Wandhekar

Towards Global Multi-Cloud Strategies: Insights into AWS and Alibaba Cloud Synergy
Martin G. Zizler, Malte Prieß, Christoph P. Neumann

A Modular Kubernetes Workload Simulator for Evaluating Learning-Based Scheduling Policies
Marios Touloupou, Syed Mafooq Ul Hassan, Jacopo Castellini, Pablo Strasser, Alexandros Kalousis, Herodotos Herodotou

The following papers have been selected on the basis of their contents, specificaly for lending themselves to an interesting extended work. The authors of these papers are receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Papers Invited for IARIA Journals

Agentic Placement of Microservices on the Computing Continuum
Kunal Rao, Giuseppe Coviello, Srimat Chakradhar

Hypertool: A Resource Abstraction and Lifecycle Management Framework for Heterogeneous Cloud Environments
Michael Loukeris, Nektarios Deligiannakis, Vassilis Papataxiarhis, Panagiotis Kechriniotis, Stathes Hadjiefthymiades, Syed Mafooq Ul Hassan, Herodotos Herodotou, Nicolas Louca

The Final Frontier of Orchestration: Bringing Kubernetes to On-Field and Embedded Devices Beyond Cloud-to-Edge Continuum
Pallav Kumar Deb, Jorge Carola, Susmit Shegokar, Wolfgang Forstmeier

A Multi-Resource Power Modeling Framework for Energy-Aware Cloud Simulation in CloudSim
Awet Teklemariam Ghebrekidan, Raju Shrestha